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Heritage, Affect and Emotion - Politics, practices and infrastructures (Paperback)
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Heritage, Affect and Emotion - Politics, practices and infrastructures (Paperback)
Series: Critical Studies in Heritage, Emotion and Affect
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Heritage and its economies are driven by affective politics and
consolidated through emotions such as pride, awe, joy and pain. In
the humanities and social sciences, there is a widespread
acknowledgement of the limits not only of language and
subjectivity, but also of visuality and representation. Social
scientists, particularly within cultural geography and cultural
studies, have recently attempted to define and understand that
which is more-than-representational, through the development of
theories of affect, assemblage, post-humanism and actor network
theory, to name a few. While there have been some recent attempts
to draw these lines of thinking more forcefully into the field of
heritage studies, this book focuses for the first time on relating
heritage with the politics of affect. The volume argues that our
engagements with heritage are almost entirely figured through the
politics of affective registers such as pain, loss, joy, nostalgia,
pleasure, belonging or anger. It brings together a number of
contributions that collectively - and with critical acuity -
question how researchers working in the field of heritage might
begin to discover and describe affective experiences, especially
those that are shaped and expressed in moments and spaces that can
be, at times, intensely personal, intimately shared and ultimately
social. It explores current theoretical advances that enable
heritage to be affected, released from conventional understandings
of both 'heritage-as-objects' and 'objects-as-representations' by
opening it up to a range of new meanings, emergent and formed in
moments of encounter. Whilst representational understandings of
heritage are by no means made redundant through this agenda, they
are destabilized and can thus be judged anew in light of these
developments. Each chapter offers a novel and provocative
contribution, provided by an interdisciplinary team of researchers
who are thinking theoretically about affect through landscapes,
practices of commemoration, visitor experience, site interpretation
and other heritage work.
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